21 Jul 2013
Beringia Lunch
We spent the morning again enjoying the annual Beringia Regatta & festival, including a visit to the local museum which houses Chukchi artifacts and replicas of regional wildlife. About a twenty minute walk down the beach sat the remains of a whale that had been killed two days prior and we watched as one of the locals cut and gathered pieces of blubber and meat. At the festival we sampled the lunch buffet, a smogasboard of fresh whale meat, kidney and slices of raw blubber and skin, tundra herbs, seaweed, steaming reindeer broth and bread.
In the evening, we went on the most spectacular sunset Zodiac cruise beneath a blue, pink and purple sky to Mechigmen Spit, where we spent an hour birding and visiting the remains of an ancient Inuit settlement.
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